Late Summer Garden Tour - In-Depth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ส.ค. 2019
- www.edibleacres.org
Let's go on a walk through the main garden of our small site. Certainly some challenges with wet areas and 'weeds' we haven't kept up with, but overall it's a dense and diverse space that has a lot going on. We really appreciate it.
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Happy growing!
I usually hate long rambling videos, but I could listen to your garden tour all day.
What an exciting and informative video. Please don't worry about making them too long for us - we can always pause, if necessary. I am confident that I'm not the only one who loves your garden tours. If you have no problems uploading them, we will happily stream them.
I was pleased to see all of your wetland plants - you gave me some great ideas for three boggy areas on my property. I am also looking forward to your mioga (sp?) ginger; I would dearly love to grow ginger. I'm only zone 8, but we can get plenty of snow for long periods.
Thanks for the positive words on the length... I don't want to make every video super long, but one here or there makes sense..
Myoga ginger in your area would be super easy I think...
I find this way of gardening especially with the natural water very interesting and intriguing
Please! Go as loooong as you want. I learn so much just taking the tour and hearing your comments. I would love to have a food forest. Thank you.
Has anyone told you Sean that you should be the voice for audiobooks? I don’t want to give the wrong idea but your voice is beautiful and poetic. Sasha how can you get anything done?! I don’t see it near enough so I want to thank Sasha for sharing this intimate gardening methodology and the person you are connected with. Much love and prosperity mainly joy I wish to u. :)
Thanks for such kind words here!
This is the first video I have seen of yours and what a wonderful introduction it is. Thank you for sharing your calm presence, deep knowledge, and beautiful philosophy with us.
Really happy to have you with us in the community. Welcome!
I think it's absolutely beautiful. I love that it's not all organized 🌻
Beautiful! Love your garden! Don’t apologize for the long videos, I thoroughly enjoy them🙂
Beautiful, just lovely diversity! 🌱❣️
I love your gardens. Oh makes me wish I was 20 years younger! I do what I can but I’m envious of your gardens.
Your voice reminds me a little of Olympic Champion Brian Boitano, with the quiet, concise, and deliberate way you convey your thoughts. Love your videos. It's really remarkable what you're able to do with the little garden. Very inspirational. Thanks for sharing.
This video wasn’t too long. I love seeing all the plants! Thanks for the tour.
Thanks for the positive feedback...
Thank you for such a light and informative show of your property. I learned a lot. It's good to see a professional taking advantage of the exact level of diversity and intensity I am bringing to my garden. It can be difficult to plan things appropriately and execute tasks in the correct time-frames but it is all worth it to better serve.
Ha! That is nice that you called me a professional here. Definitely wouldn't call myself that! Been doing a lot of mixed experiments for many years and have a WHOLE lot of plants and diversity going on, but professional wouldn't be a word I'd think to use, personally! :)
I love the garden tours and your attitude of curiosity as you go. Thank you.
I love you all. ive been sick and only watching your videos. you've given me so many ideas and can't wait to get to work as soon as I get better. Thank you both!
Hope you get better very soon.
Very enjoyable. Very stressed from work and this helped me decompress. Thanks☺
It's nice to think a walk through our garden can help folks relax after work... I like that.
@@edibleacres Yep - sure helps me too!
I absolutely LOVE Anise Hyssop! It makes the most refreshing iced tea❤️
Your voice is so soothing and relaxing
I love your channel! I feel like I'm learning a new language when you talk about the different plantings.
Wow, it's so diverse and beautiful! How charming that the chipmunks inadvertently helped! Reminds me of Emerson's "Earth laughs in flowers." Thank you for sharing the joy. :) Nice rich, dark compost too! Especially love the willows. Thinking about how to incorporate them into our little "wet spot" in the back yard.
As we move into fall, looking forward to seeing more about wintering over. (And always enjoy the chicken videos - delightful!)
Thanks so much for oodles of information, calm camera and delivery, beautiful garden.
Thank you for creating this channel. I love all the information. I'm in Texas zone 8a and gardening is extremely challenging in a very dry, extremely hot climate. Still I have hope to achieve a premature food forest .
Work on water catchment and storage in the ground and in containers. Once you have water covered, things start to fall into place
@@getplanted5730
Never been to Texas
I wish you luck with your situation. Focusing on permanent raised beds with very deep mulches, perennials, tap rooting nutrient accumulators and laying out beds exactly on contour are all ways to help hold onto more water in that kind of extreme landscape. I trust you'll make it happen in great ways!
@@getplanted5730 Just north of Dallas
Don't forget grey water! It is a highly underutilized resource in the southwest.
Wonderful!
Sean I loved the long vlog today hope for more long vlogs 🌱🦇🐓🌻
Glad you enjoyed. This wins the award for longest meandering video ever from our channel! I was a little nervous to put up something so crazy long, but I figure people can always click away.
@@edibleacres I say, the more the better. :)
Love your garden tour
This is my favorite video. What a wealth of information!
So glad you found it useful!
So calming yet very informative and entertaining. We kept score of how many times you mentioned “wet” and “wetter”. Thank you.
Ha!
Lovely informative video. I could listen to you talk for hours about your garden. Hi from the UK 😊
Thanks for sharing the natural path. I see lot's of life forms🍀 Your soil is looking great.
LOVE videos like this! ❤️
You know me: Not going to hear a complaint from me about a long video. Thanks for the informative meander and the beautiful inspiration. I will have to look into that perennial ginger!
Beautiful, learning something new. Thank you
Love the long form videos! Keep it up looking great!
Very nice, a pleasure to see. Keep it up!
Thanks for your tour that was awesome. What a great mix of plants. 😎😎😎
i love the way yer growing,, just the way i do,, cept i havent figgured out how to sell the plants yet,, thank you for the video
We grew these fun types of plants for 8 years before we started really selling any!
Love it, love it, love it :) I could listen and watch for hours :) Here in Portland, Oregon we see that Seaberry is also quite tolerant of dry. We usually have almost no rain from the end of June to the end of September. Sweet Potato greens are also edible raw.
I don’t think it’s possible for you to make a video that is too long! Always interesting content! 👏🙏
I appreciate that! Glad you enjoy.
Awesome...thanks for showing us this. Very inspiring...I think I'll go out for a couple of hours today wonder in my garden:)
So beautiful!! 😍
would love to see even more! if youre worried about length you could always do parts
Your garden looks very healthy indeed. However, as someone who's highly organized and puts alot of value in aesthetics (house, garden, neatness etc..) this makes me itch >
Lovely!🤗💛🤗
BEAUTY BERRY!!! It is native to my area of S.W. Louisiana and I have discovered a plethora of them growing all around our new 2 acre home. Some of them are huge which is not uncommon on this property as we bought it as an estate and it has needed a lot of TLC. I have collected and frozen a couple of gallon bags of berries and plan to make jelly with them when I have more time this winter. The berries taste very medicinal when raw but developed a very complex yet subtle taste similar to rose petal jelly when they are cooked. I hope you end up with a good crop so you have enough to try canning them. Here in S.W. Louisiana the berries begin to ripen just as our dry season starts so they are a treasured source of nutrition for the wild birds. Taking in this thought I have left plenty for them to eat and spread the seed. I have also taken to sharing some of the berries with my chickens who enjoy them a great deal. I mean who doesn't love bright pink/purple berries!!!
Good to hear someone excited about them. They're new to us but they are growing like CRAZY in the nursery bed so I'm hoping they'll be a nice fit!
So beautiful ❤️
Beautiful garden. I love your approach to plants/vegs. Your climate is the extreme opposite to ours, but planting very close also works well here. Thank you, Sean.
My pleasure to share.
you say it is chaotic, but it looks so organized and 'clean' in a way. the paths, are they mulched with sawdust? cheers!
love it
They are mulched with sawdust. I should do a follow up video on that since we've been really appreciating how well that works for us.
I've also found Spanish round black radish and perennial leek to be extremely valuable varieties and would recommend them to anyone.
I'm so glad I finally found a channel that's finger lakes/upstate NY specific 🙂 I've learned so much from your channel! Thank you for creating content!
Our pleasure to share. Thanks for joining us!
Do you guys offer any classes or work shops?
super nice! i've learned so much new things on this tour.
love your approach man.
keep it up!
(didn't now the leave of sweet potato was edible for example)
Sasha learned about sweet potato leaves as a cooked green. They are lovely and we really enjoy them.
A+
Where and how did you acquire such a wide and vast knowledge of the flora in your wonderful garden tours?
It’s quite impressive and informative- tanx
Just hanging out with plants all the time for years...
I am in zone 5a 6800' elevation and I have red Russian kale as a perennial
Loving this video.... just got to the windy wild bed.. curious as to why do you use hay and not straw for the mulch, I only have access to 'ruined' straw from local farm. Absolutely glorious tour!
We use hay because it's 1) generally cheaper, 2) breaks down into a more complete compost, 3) least likely to have any spray on it. If we found inexpensive, organic mulch straw available, we'd gladly use it...
@@edibleacres Thank you, very interesting to hear this... am going to speak to local farms and try and get some hay too!
Wonderful walk thru. How big are the Elderberry root fragments your planting?
I am curious, too about what size of Elder root fragments will grow. Thank you.
I'll be honest, most of that bed is filled out with roots that had to be cut off of plants we were shipping. If the roots are too long they don't fit in the package, so instead of composting them I planted them all out (1" to 4" or longer, all random thickness). Probably 60% + of those random roots took and now we've got a pile of more plants from root trimming!!!
@@edibleacresThat's like hypercloning. Doesn't surprise me for Elders. But, that's still an interesting & wonderful thing to learn about them. Plants teach us so much.
I've been working with elders for several years now. They were one of the 1st plants I learned to propagate & integrate.
They're so easy, delightful plants to work with, for so many reasons. I've heard them called, "care taker plants." Despite being so... promiscuous, they're very congenial & supportive within many other communities.
This might be a dumb question, but I wonder is it possible to graft roots of different varieties?
I know little about grafting. I've been reading about trees and other woody plants supposedly doing that, on their own, as they network in the world wood web.
Thank you for this educational tour. Very helpfull and interesting. We have a similar climate in the north of France that makes your tips useful. Do you water the plot during the summer? Bless you!
We water as needed, but not a whole lot. We hand water when it seems necessary.
Living in California, it always blows my mind that people get rain this time of year.
Here in Indiana it feels like its rained every day for the past 2 weeks
Michael McMillan I’m with u only in Palm Springs. It’s been 110 degrees still no rain just the humidity.
I can't imagine having to deal with prolonged drought.... Scary thought. Such a different garden design that would be needed for that...
@@edibleacres I live in a typically well-watered mid-mountain area (2635 ft) in central France, and we have had drought conditions for the past three years. It no longer snows like it used to, so the water aquifers don't recharge, then we get little rain throughout the year with unheard of heat waves (We were able to dine outside in short sleeves for a solid week and a half in February). Or else a spring onslaught of rain, followed directly by a solid month of north winds that dry everything out again. It is tricky trying to get our garden/forest going in these conditions. I lost my seaberry couple to the drought. When i buy another, I will take your observation to heart that they thrive in moist condition and will try to site them better.
Lovely! Question. When I put house plants outside, I ended up with ants, pill bugs and earwigs ect living in them. Then in the house! Do you do anything to stop them from moving in the house with the plants?
Hmmm... We haven't seen that so I'm not sure how to advise. Not too big a deal to sneak them back out if they come in, unless it's a crazy amount.
Thank you for the great content there’s always something to glean. What do you do for mosquito control with all the wet areas?
The beautiful part is that in natural water systems the frogs and birds and other wild creatures take care of it all!
@@edibleacres That's amazing! We have tons of frogs and fat birds too but it's so swampy here...doesn't even put a dent in the bugs population D:
Truly a sight to behold. I wonder if you're able to share if you feel like this model would work in a typical person's annual garden? I want to mimic this, but I won't have nearly this many perennials at first since I'm not yet ready to start my nursery work. I was planning to cut my gentle slope on contour beds and walk in the swales, then plant a larger perennial in the middle as you have done, and then annuals on either side all the way around. Might need to be taller annuals in the middle for at least a year or so too.... I can't wait to build my own beautiful piece of paradise like you've got! Overgrown is just how mama earth likes it ;)
Your ideas make sense. Certainly doesn't have to be perennial to work. In some cases it makes things really complex to manage, but we're getting used to it. Tallest in the middle, perennial-ist in the middle :), and smaller/more harvestable towards the edge as a VERY basic pattern has served us well...
Does your pond have any kind of liner or does it hold water by itself?
No liner. Sometimes it holds beautifully and sometimes it is leaky...
Please let me know what hardiness zone you are in. Better still, what is the coldest temperatures in your winter zone?
I'm in 5b in British Columbia, Canada. Dwarf Siberian peaches? Wow, must check that out.
We are zone 5B central NY State. -15F or -20F is possible, but not very common. We may see those air temps once or twice a winter, every few winters. Generally 0F is our coldest.
What zone are you in?
Central NY State Zone 5B
Is this a Tetrapanax that I've spotted in the greenhouse? Is it an ornamental?
I believe you were seeing a castor bean plant...
@@edibleacres Oh, that's possible. I'm actually also growing castor beans, but the red-leafed type, so I didn't recognize them. Are you growing them as nursery stock or to extract oil? I wouldn't dare with mine, considering how poisonous the plant is 😅
Question: I've heard several times that beauty berries have poison seeds but govt sites don't mention them as poison. I also see many recipes for beauty berry jelly which I'm making right now. Is that what you do with the berries? One site even said it was fun to crunch down on the seeds to feel the 'pop' like the fun kids treat "Pop Rocks". So much conflicting info but I'm trying it today, anyway.
Let me know what you find out. This is the first we'll be able to work with them. Just started the cuttings last season.
@@edibleacres I finally found what I consider to be a reliable source to confirm they are edible. Finished making 12 pints of jelly (gorgeous color) all from one bush. It is out in the hot Florida sun for most of the day and gets some shade in afternoon. No care, fertilizer, water, nada. It was wild on our property but didn't remove it since I love it for its' beauty in autumn..After taking most of the berries for jelly, there are lots of brightly colored berries still remaining. It does die back each winter but if I cut it down to about 6-8" from ground, it regrows every year and is amazing. A member of the verbena family, mine is the americana and native to southeastern US. It was used by native americans medicinally, and by settlers for jelly. Not real tasty until cooked and sweetened but the leaves and berries make excellent mosquito repellent. My jelly didn't set as I used a pectin powder and followed directions but think next year, I'll just go without powder and cook until it thickens as if I was making candy. I plan to use this 'syrup' for pancakes, waffles, and ice cream. I will also use it for flavoring water and I'll try it in tea both hot and cold.
The syrup is so very good. Sort of a mild plum taste. We decided it would be great mixed into a cheese cake, poured over a pound cake, mixed with sprite or 7-up, made into some sort of sauce for pork, and just an overall great syrup. I'm glad it didn't turn into jelly since as a syrup I can use it so many different ways.
Everyone that tastes it says they love it.
Make sure your hay doesnt have seed on it. I made that mistake now its full of grass. Sigh
We've learned if you mulch deeply enough the seeds that may show up aren't much of an issue. They are easy to pull out in super deep mulches.
@@edibleacres Wow...good to know that about seeds in deep mulch...big thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am imagining that may work with a variety of types of seeds. Something to experiment with